Dane Whiteclaw knows something about Sheila Warren that no one else does. Dane knows Sheila's dead.

The ex-special forces agent turned private investigator had found a photo under his door -- a picture of Sheila's body. She had been strangled with his tie and posed on the beach of his private island in the Florida Keys. The crime appears to be the handiwork of a serial killer currently terrorizing the Miami area. Dane is being set up to take the fall for the killings. He just doesn't know why.

Kelsey Cunningham is Sheila's best friend. When she can't find Sheila, she confronts one person she thinks will have information -- Dane, Sheila's former lover and a man Kelsey knows from her own past. Dane makes it clear he doesn't want Kelsey getting involved. But it's obvious he knows more than he's saying, and she'll do whatever it takes to discover the whereabouts of her missing friend.

Driven by fear for Sheila and guilt at not being there when her friend needed her, Kelsey follows Sheila's tracks into a wild and dangerous world of sex, violence and drugs. Dane is right behind her, an unwanted protector in the shark-infested waters she's swimming. But the tentative trust between them shatters when Sheila's body is discovered -- and Kelsey recognizes Dane's tie.

Now Kelsey doesn't dare trust anyone. Especially a man she can no longer deny she has always loved. She begins to look over her shoulder, suddenly very afraid. Because here on Hurricane Bay, a devastating storm can hit without warning, and whether it's a tempest of unbridled passion or the desperate fury of a killer, nothing -- and no one -- is safe.